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PROFILE: Amit Verma

Nitin Joshi

Sincere, good-looking, honest, talented. A few qualities of actor Amit Verma who has become quite popular on television. Until recently, you saw him in Instant Khichdi and Hotel Kingston. Now you see him in the new Sahara show Kittu Sab Jaanti Hai which is the story of this girl Kittu with Verma playing her love interest, Rohan Kapoor.

The character he plays in this daily is a rich guy craving for love. ''No, he is not a spoilt brat. He is extremely rich so he does carry lots of attitude but he is a nice guy who falls in love with Kittu. It's an interesting character. Something I haven't done before.



Very different from Raju of Khichdi or Vish of Hotel Kingston,'' says Verma who goes on further to explain, ''Rohan is looking for genuine people. He is sick of the cliched society. He has never seen the kind of simplicity that Kittu has and that's what he falls for. It's going good. I am enjoying myself doing Rohan.''

You wonder how much he would be doing in the show considering it's woman-centric and the story revolves around Kittu. ''Well, no doubt it's Kittu's story but I have lot of scope because like I said I am her love interest. And the love story between them is very interesting. There is a lot of scope to perform,'' says Amit who feels the love thing between the two is quite different and not the regular happy marriage followed by problems.

''The show is written very well. It's treated very differently.'' Verma has worked on his look for Rohan which is very different from Raju or Vish. ''You will see me in singlets, beads, jackets, torn jeans...'' reveals Amit an Arts graduate from Mithibai College, who started off with modelling and has endorsed products like Airtel (with Shah Rukh Khan), Surf, Kinetic Nova, Thums Up. His first television break came with Khichdi on Star Plus after which came Hotel Kingston and Instant Khichdi. And yes, in between he did some episodes of Shagun as Dev.

''Khichdi was more of a learning experience and I kept implementing it in Hotel Kingston. But both the shows were great experiences and I will cherish them all my life,'' says Verma.